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The experimental distinguishing attack on RC4

Authors:
Sergey Doroshenko
Boris Ryabko
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URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2006/070
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Abstract: The output of RC4 was analyzed using the "book stack" test for randomness. It is experimentally shown that the keystream generated from RC4 can be distinguished from random with about $2^{32}$ output bits.
BibTeX
@misc{eprint-2006-21563,
  title={The experimental distinguishing attack on RC4},
  booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
  keywords={secret-key cryptography / stream ciphers},
  url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2006/070},
  note={ boris@ryabko.net 13200 received 21 Feb 2006},
  author={Sergey Doroshenko and Boris Ryabko},
  year=2006
}